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I have already Dual booted my laptop with windows 10 and Ubuntu 15.10, now I want to add windows XP, and triple boot it. How should I do it ?

Shyam Zawar
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Well, there are a few different ways you can go about doing this, but the idea is to create a new partition on your primary hard drive, then install Windows XP to that partition. There are many partitioning tools, but GParted for Linux is free and works very well. There are many online resources that explain the ins and outs of GParted, so I won't provide a complete user manual here.

The partition you create for Windows XP should either be fat32 or NTFS. Once you have a working new partition, boot from the install disc / USB, or whatever contains your Windows XP Installation Image. When it asks you where you want to install Windows XP, select the new partition, and wait for the install to complete.

In theory, it should be as simple as that. Your BIOS should show as many bootable partitions as are active and available when you enter the boot device options menu.

Alternatively, you can reinstall your Ubuntu to a bootable USB drive, then have your two Windows installs on your primary. I have never heard of anyone installing Windows on a removable USB, but I'm sure there's a way. That being said, Linux is particularly portable-drive-friendly, so if you choose to use an external / portable drive, this would probably be the best configuration. In addition, this gives you a portable OS you can take anywhere and boot on almost any machine.

I hope this helps.

Adam Hayes
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